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Article: BABY GIFT.
- Article from:
- Harper's Bazaar
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Young women selling their eggs for $150,000? Shocking headlines have made egg donation look like a scary frontier. But when Meghan Daum met actual donors, she found the baby trade less lucrative--and more civilized--than we've been led to believe. Photographed by Richard Burbridge
Michelle Vazquez is five feet five inches tall and has the stocky build of a high-school field-hockey player. She's a pretty woman, with auburn hair and blue eyes, but she hardly looks like a model. Nor is she a member of Mensa, a prodigal violinist, or in possession of any number of other traits that might be associated with one of the most sought-after egg donors in America. What she ...